Comments on: Wanted: A Suck It Up candidate

By: Michelle Malkin » NJ Gov. Chris Christie shows what leadership looks like

Michelle Malkin » NJ Gov. Chris Christie shows what leadership looks like — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 04:38:13 +0000

[...] here. I’ve been longing for a public official with the courage and audacity to say “suck it up”, take responsibility, stand up to the unions and the permanent Nanny State, and make the tough [...]

By: One of these days the responsible, successful people living within our means will be out of money to give to the rest of the knuckleheads in this country. | Manly's Blog

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 18:53:20 +0000

[...] than a year ago, I called for the GOP to distinguish itself from the Big Government Democrats running for president and [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Questions & answers and more questions about O’s massive mortgage entitelement

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 16:43:47 +0000

[...] than a year ago, I called for the GOP to distinguish itself from the Big Government Democrats running for president and [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Sen. McConnell proposes more Big Government to fix Big Government debacle

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 14:34:56 +0000

[...] than a year ago, I called for the GOP to distinguish itself from the Big Government Democrats running for president and [...]

By: Americans are obsessed with gambling! « Riggword Weblog

Americans are obsessed with gambling! « Riggword Weblog — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 02:28:17 +0000

[...] By Michelle Malkin • January 6, 2009 03:18 PM This is exactly right. Unfortunately, “Suck It Up” is not a winning message in Washington. (More [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » “There’s no pain-free cure for recession”

Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:18:44 +0000

[...] “Suck It Up” is not a winning message in Washington. Posted in: Subprime crisis Send to a Friend Printer [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Hank Paulson throws more crap at the wall, hopes it sticks

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:34:44 +0000

[...] have said for the last 11 months (and many readers agreed) that we needed to just suck it up and let a natural correction in the [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Here it is: The mother of all government bailouts

Michelle Malkin » Here it is: The mother of all government bailouts — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 15:55:46 +0000

[...] I called for the “Suck It Up” solution to the housing crisis, I didn’t mean that government should suck up our money. [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Fiscal conservative hero: Sen. Bunning asks the right questions about the housing boondoggle

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 17:55:39 +0000

[...] housing blog has excerpts of a follow-up interview with Bunning, who sounds many of the hard-nosed, Suck It Up themes I’ve been pounding over the last eight months: “This is an unusually bad bill, [...]

By: Michelle Malkin » Newsflash: John McCain says something I can cheer

Michelle Malkin » Newsflash: John McCain says something I can cheer — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:26:30 +0000

[...] this is progress. Just a first step. But significant progress nonetheless. In January, I posted my Wanted: A Suck It Up candidate column, which assailed the lender-bashing and irresponsible homeowner pandering in both parties, and [...]

By: OBAMA: NOT MESSIAH, BUT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE BLOGGERS |

OBAMA: NOT MESSIAH, BUT GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE BLOGGERS | — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 02:30:11 +0000

[...] believe the phrase, Michelle, is SUCK. IT. UP. McCain is your guy. Hell, he may be MY guy. I’ll see who the Dem Nominee [...]

By: wash interior

wash interior — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 02:55:26 +0000

wash interior…

Thank You!!!!…

By: The Whole Bird

The Whole Bird — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 15:30:23 +0000

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid!…

When Republicans and Democrats agree on something, it’s going to cost you money….

By: Random-American

Random-American — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 18:15:17 +0000

I could have bought a house but, after weighing my financial situation, I realized I couldn’t afford it at the moment. I made a good decision. So why should I have my tax dollars seized from me to give to people who made a poor decision, just to allow them to stay in a house we all know they can’t afford?

Why should my good decision be punished, and those who made poor decision be rewarded with my money, and from others like me?

It’s insanity.

By: Random-American - News Analysis and the Rantings of an Ordinary Citizen » Bubbles, financial ‘crisis,’ and government intervention

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:48:27 +0000

[...] Then came the housing ‘bubble.’ Shoddy wheelings and dealings by big investment firms and manipulative mortgage brokers got people into houses, who had no business buying a house, or were buying more house than they could truly afford. The brokers offered loans with a sub-prime interest rate. However, that rate was only temporary and had actually been an adjustable-rate. After a certain amount of time, that initial rate would go back up, over the actual current prime interest rate. Naturally, this would make the homeowner’s mortgage payment go up. From the business perspective, it was just business, they wanted to sell as many mortgages as they could, and businesses are out to make money. However, those business practices should also be based in reality and if their own shoddy practices lead to them going bankrupt, then so be it. The feds should not bail them out. Let the market naturally weed out the businesses that failed and those that are successful will still be around. Also, the co-conspirators are the individual homeowners who actually signed the mortgage papers themselves. They are ultimately responsible for their own housing situation. The government should not step in and bail people out, nor should they bail out the mortgage brokers. They should all have to face the music and, as very elequently put by Michelle Malkin, they should just suck it up. [...]